A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Thursday, December 1st, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Wintery December is upon us.
Let's put the final touches to the year
by starting each day
with a powerful, vigorous gongyo
and daimoku.
Together, let's sing our joyful songs of victory!
Thursday, December 1st, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"They give their lives for shallow, worldly matters but rarely for the Buddha's precious teachings. Small wonder they do not attain Buddhahood."
(Letter from Sado
- WND, Vol.1, page 301)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, Dec 1st, 2016
Friday, December 2nd, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'Buddhism primarily concerns itself with victory or defeat' (WND-1, 835); and 'Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord' (WND-1, 839). These passages encapsulate the essential message of Nichiren Buddhism that Soka Gakkai members throughout Japan and the world have cherished and taken deeply to heart from the earliest days of our movement.
"Since Buddhism means being victorious, founding Soka Gakkai president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi placed utmost importance on actual proof, or proof of actual fact. He called Soka Gakkai discussion meetings, 'discussion meetings offering experimental proof,' asserting that practising the Daishonin's teachings was 100-percent guaranteed to produce actual proof, or real results, in our lives.
"We have to win both in life and in society. Addressing us, his young disciples, my mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, said: 'Our Buddhist practice enables us to achieve absolute victory. With that awareness and understanding, we should strive to win in our jobs and in all areas of our lives.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 9501, The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [13] The Five Eternal Guidelines of the Soka Gakkai—Part 5 [of 5, ]"Faith for Absolute Victory"—Prayer Based on the Shared Vow of Mentor and Disciple, from the May 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 30th Nov., 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
SA SHIWASU NO JUNIGATSU.
HONNEN NO SOSHIAGE E
RORO TARU GONGYO, SHODAI DE
ICHINICHI O "START" SHIYO!
KANKI NO GAIKA O TOMODOMO NI!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"SEKEN NO ASAKI KOTO NIWA SHINMYO O USHINAEDOMO DAIJI NO BUPPO NANDO NIWA SUTSURU KOTO KATASHI YUENI HOTOKE NI NARU HITO MO NAKARU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 956)
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Thursday, December 1st, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Wintery December is upon us.
Let's put the final touches to the year
by starting each day
with a powerful, vigorous gongyo
and daimoku.
Together, let's sing our joyful songs of victory!
Thursday, December 1st, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"They give their lives for shallow, worldly matters but rarely for the Buddha's precious teachings. Small wonder they do not attain Buddhahood."
(Letter from Sado
- WND, Vol.1, page 301)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, Dec 1st, 2016
Friday, December 2nd, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'Buddhism primarily concerns itself with victory or defeat' (WND-1, 835); and 'Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord' (WND-1, 839). These passages encapsulate the essential message of Nichiren Buddhism that Soka Gakkai members throughout Japan and the world have cherished and taken deeply to heart from the earliest days of our movement.
"Since Buddhism means being victorious, founding Soka Gakkai president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi placed utmost importance on actual proof, or proof of actual fact. He called Soka Gakkai discussion meetings, 'discussion meetings offering experimental proof,' asserting that practising the Daishonin's teachings was 100-percent guaranteed to produce actual proof, or real results, in our lives.
"We have to win both in life and in society. Addressing us, his young disciples, my mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, said: 'Our Buddhist practice enables us to achieve absolute victory. With that awareness and understanding, we should strive to win in our jobs and in all areas of our lives.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 9501, The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [13] The Five Eternal Guidelines of the Soka Gakkai—Part 5 [of 5, ]"Faith for Absolute Victory"—Prayer Based on the Shared Vow of Mentor and Disciple, from the May 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 30th Nov., 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
SA SHIWASU NO JUNIGATSU.
HONNEN NO SOSHIAGE E
RORO TARU GONGYO, SHODAI DE
ICHINICHI O "START" SHIYO!
KANKI NO GAIKA O TOMODOMO NI!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"SEKEN NO ASAKI KOTO NIWA SHINMYO O USHINAEDOMO DAIJI NO BUPPO NANDO NIWA SUTSURU KOTO KATASHI YUENI HOTOKE NI NARU HITO MO NAKARU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 956)
__._,_.___
Posted by: Scobie-John Le May-Grellan <sjlmg@me.com>
| Reply via web post | • | Reply to sender | • | Reply to group | • | Start a new topic | • | Messages in this topic (1) |
If you have a friend(s) who would like to get To My Friends directly get them to send an E-mail to the following address and just simply write - "subscribe"
: SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
from there on it is all automatic!
ALSO if you want to introduce a friend to the SGI but just don't know where to start, share with them the following addresses and they can read and watch some very well put together explanations about the SGI. Check it out yourself!
http://www.sgi.org/
http://www.sgi-uk.org/buddhism/practice
Check out the following address if you are looking for an important gosho quote
http://www.nichirenlibrary.org
And for the children there's a wonderful new web-site
http://treasures-of-heart.com/
And if you are looking for back editions of To My Friends click on...
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo/conversations/messages
To unsubscribe from this group send an email to:
SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-unsubscribe@egroups.com
But do drop us a line at sjlmg@wta.att.ne.jp when you leave and tell us why you are leaving as it often can help us to improve the service! Please!
To modify your subscription from receiving daily to picking up as you wish go to http://www.egroups.com/mygroups
: SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
from there on it is all automatic!
ALSO if you want to introduce a friend to the SGI but just don't know where to start, share with them the following addresses and they can read and watch some very well put together explanations about the SGI. Check it out yourself!
http://www.sgi.org/
http://www.sgi-uk.org/buddhism/practice
Check out the following address if you are looking for an important gosho quote
http://www.nichirenlibrary.org
And for the children there's a wonderful new web-site
http://treasures-of-heart.com/
And if you are looking for back editions of To My Friends click on...
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo/conversations/messages
To unsubscribe from this group send an email to:
SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-unsubscribe@egroups.com
But do drop us a line at sjlmg@wta.att.ne.jp when you leave and tell us why you are leaving as it often can help us to improve the service! Please!
To modify your subscription from receiving daily to picking up as you wish go to http://www.egroups.com/mygroups
.
__,_._,___
No comments:
Post a Comment